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Eli Elliott of Shelton turns 6 this week, and until a week and half ago, his hair had never been cut beyond a trim. Two Saturdays ago, Eli's mother, Amanda Elliott, braided his elbow-long hair and cut it off at KSB Salon in Shelton, where she is a master stylist. Eli said he was inspired by a video on the nonprofit Wigs for Kids and wanted to give his locks "to kids who have cancer and don't have any hair anymore." He winked at his grandmother, Angela Bonds, during the haircut, and pronounced th...
Tickets on sale for annual Love INC golf tournament Tickets are on sale for the 11th annual Love INC Charity Golf Tournament, which will be hosted July 18 at the Alderbrook Golf and Yacht Club in Union. Teams of up to four golfers can register for $175. The event is the largest fundraiser for Shelton-based Love INC (In the Name of Christ), whose 25 partner churches provide people with clothing, blankets, backpacks for kids, diapers, medical equipment and financial help. To register for the golf tournament, call 360-462-5683 or go to...
Final day for free meals at Shelton schools Today is the last day the Shelton School District is providing free meals to anyone ages 18 and younger. The meals must be eaten on-site during the scheduled times of operations. Locations and times: ■ Shelton High School, 3737 N. Shelton Springs Road, breakfast 7:15-7:35 a.m., lunch noon to 12:30 p.m. ■ Olympic Middle School, 800 E. K St., breakfast 8-8:30 a.m., lunch 11:50 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. ■ Evergreen Elementary School, 900 W. Franklin St., breakfast 8-8:30 a.m., lunch 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. ■ CHO...
Improving the city's Western Gateway on West Railroad Avenue and building two roundabouts on Wallace Kneeland Boulevard, are the top three priorities on the City of Shelton's proposed Six-Year Transportation Improvement Plan. The Shelton City Council on Tuesday evening hosted its first public hearing on the proposed plan. The council is scheduled to vote on the document at its July 19 meeting. No one from the public offered comments Tuesday. The city's code states that the plan is designed "to...
Golf tournament helps Humane Society programs The Humane Society of Mason County hosts its second annual Putting Fore Pets” fundraising golf tournament Aug. 13 at LakeLand Village Golf Course in Allyn. The check-in for the four-person scramble format begins at 8:30 a.m., with the shotgun start at 10 a.m. The entry fee is $110 per person, and includes 18 holes of golf, cart and meal. Awards and raffle prizes immediately follow the tournament. The money raised helps support the Humane Society of Mason County’s programs. Details are available at...
Republicans Patti Case, Travis Couture and Tiffany Sevruk, and Democrat Sandy Kaiser are competing in the Aug. 2 primary to replace Union resident Drew MacEwen in representing District 35, position 2 in the state Legislature. The top two vote-getters will advance to the Nov. 8 general election. MacEwen is running for the state Senate in a bid to replace Tim Sheldon, who is retiring. Patti Case What are the biggest challenges facing Mason County? Mason County faces many issues brought on by...
Mason County Commissioner Sharon Trask, a Republican, faces a challenge from fellow Republican Mark Carlson and Democrat Miguel Gutierrez, a first-term member of the Shelton City Council, in the Aug. 2 primary election. The top two vote getters advance to the Nov. 8 regular election in a bid for a four-year term representing Commissioner District 3. The ballots will be mailed July 12. The three candidates answered five questions sent by the Shelton-Mason County Journal. Sharon Trask What are...
Four people are on the Aug. 2 primary ballot competing to replace Linda Gott on the Mason PUD Commission representing District 1, with the top two vote-getters advancing to the Nov. 8 general election. Juli Tuson, Marty Crow, Randy Lewis and Brianna Sheetz are seeking a six-year term as the commissioner of District 1 on the three-member PUD 3 Commission. Gott, who is not seeking re-election, has served in that position since 1999. The ballots will be mailed July 12. The four candidates answered...
Discharging private fireworks is always illegal within the City of Shelton, including on the Fourth of July, while Mason County will allows private fireworks during specific times through Tuesday. The then-Shelton City Commission voted in 2013 to ban private fireworks in the city after residents complained about their use and the noise, litter, scared pets and traumatized military veterans before, during and after the Fourth of July. Violators can be charged with a misdemeanor and a fine. To report suspected fireworks violations, call 360-426-4...
Three school principals resigned this month from the Shelton School District. June 13 was the last day for Mario Juves, the principal at Oakland Bay Junior High School for two years. Today is the last day in the district for Stacey Anderson, the principal at CHOICE High School for 14 years, and Amber Argus, the principal at Evergreen Elementary School for two years. All three resignations were approved as part of the consent agenda at the Shelton School Board’s meeting Tuesday evening. Katie Diamond, communications specialist for the Shelton S...
Tickets on sale for annual Love INC golf tourney Tickets are on sale for the 11th annual Love INC Charity Golf Tournament, which will be hosted July 18 at the Alderbrook Golf and Yacht Club in Union. Teams of up to four golfers can register for $175. The event is the largest fundraiser for Shelton-based Love INC (In the Name of Christ), whose 25 partner churches provide people in need with clothing, blankets, backpacks for kids, diapers, medical equipment and financial help. To register for the golf tournament, call 360-462-5683 or go to...
A City of Shelton hearing examiner rejected Community Lifeline's request to increase the number of beds at its homeless shelter from 35 to 50, saying the expansion would "add gasoline to a fire." In his ruling released June 13, Terrence McCarthy said the Shelton-based nonprofit can apply again for an amendment to a conditional-use permit to add beds at the two-story brick building at 218 N. Third St. "once they reduce their negative impact upon their neighbors and the surrounding area." At...
A tireless advocate for the Latino community who was “more of an angel than a man,” a big-hearted Shelton High School secretary always ready to help students, the all-time points leader for the Shelton Highclimbers boys basketball team, a longtime math teacher who wouldn’t give up on her students, and an inspirational teacher and track coach last week were inducted into the Shelton School District and Community Hall of Fame. Respectively, Ricardo del Bosque, Jamie Dobson, Chris McGee, Connie Jo Nelson and Doug Sells were celebrated at a cerem...
For the first time since 2019, downtown Shelton hosted a full weekend of Forest Festival events, including the Paul Bunyan Grand Parade. Thousands lined downtown streets to take in the parade, logging show and carnival for the festival, which took place Thursday through Sunday. Rain drops and downpours, and the threatening black clouds in between, didn't prevent thousands of people from flocking to downtown Shelton last weekend for the return of the Mason County Forest Festival following a...
CHOICE High School celebrated the graduation of 37 students at a commencement ceremony June 2 in the Shelton High School Performing Arts District. CHOICE Principal Stacey Anderson pointed out the members of the Class of 2022 weathered a challenging education that included learning from home during part of the COVID pandemic and then returning, wearing face masks and social distancing, to the campus in downtown Shelton. "You'll always be a CHOICE (wild)cat, no matter where you go," she said....
The 19 new Cedar High School graduates arrived in style June 3 at their commencement ceremony at the Shelton High School Performing Arts Center. Ninety minutes before the start of the event, members of four local car clubs - the Yesteryear Car Club, Wheels of Hope, Test of Time and Kitsap Street Roadsters - pulled into the parking lot at Olympic College Shelton, the high school's home for the past year. Students in ceremonial robes and sashes picked their mode of transport. How about the sleek...
Women can try welding at free workshop Olympic College Shelton hosts a free “Women in Welding” workshop from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 18 at the campus at 937 West Alpine Way. Attendees can try welding and create a metal rose. Students must be 18 and older to register. The workshop includes all the welding materials, instruction and lunch. For more information or to register, call 360-475-7480 or careercenter@olympicedu. You can also register at ocwomeninweldingshelton.eventbrite.com. Hospital Auxiliary awards 17 scholarships Mason General Hos...
Donate blood to help ease shortage People can donate blood June 15-17 at Prince of Peace Catholic Church, 1171 NE Sand Hill Road, Belfair. To make an appointment with Bloodworks Northwest, call 1-800-398-7888 or go to Schedule.BloodworksNW.org. Join others for stroll of Bayshore Preserve Capitol Land Trust and the Shelton Timberland Library host an evening stroll at 6:30 p.m. June 21 at the Bayshore Preserve at 3800 state Route 3, about 3 miles north of downtown Shelton. Participants will gather at the kiosk in the parking lot. The 1.5-mile...
The Mason County Forest Festival returns to its full format for the first time in three years, kicking off today with the carnival at a new location on First Street, and culminating with the Shelton Car Show Off and the Duck Race on Sunday. The COVID pandemic cancelled the event in 2020. Last year, the event was dubbed Timber Days and staged over three weekends in June, July and August. Fittingly, “Back to Our Roots” is the theme of this weekend’s festival. “We’re excited to be back,” said Amy Cooper, vice president of the Mason County Fore...
The City of Shelton is considering amending its codes on camping on private property that could grant community groups permits to accommodate up to 30 people - with many proposed rules and regulations. The proposed requirements would include an around-the-clock host, visual screening from the neighbors, exterior lighting pointed down, and a posted code of conduct. People with police warrants would not be allowed. The Shelton City Council talked about the proposed code amendment changes at a...
Harstine theater group offers scholarship The Harstine Island Theatre Club is offering a $500 scholarship. Applications and guidelines are available at CHOICE, Cedar, Shelton, Mary M. Knight and North Mason high schools, and at Olympic College Shelton. Aug. 1 is the deadline to apply, and the winner will be notified by Aug. 15. Completed applications can be mailed to Scholarship Committee, Chair Dee Ann Meacham, 12 East Wilson Road, Shelton 98584 or emailed to [email protected]. Mary M. Knight offers free meals to summer attendees The Mary M....
Mark Woytowich, the outdoors columnist for the Shelton-Mason County Journal for seven years and the author of "Where the Waterfalls and Wild Things Are," was remembered as a gregarious, big-hearted lover of nature and his fellow humans at a memorial celebration Sunday at Rest-A-While RV Park's Art & Music Fair north of Hoodsport. Friends shared their stories of the Lilliwaup resident, who died of a heart attack at age 65 on May 6 at Mason General Hospital in Shelton. The Ohio native who adopted...
Some downtown Shelton business owners say street people are urinating and defecating outside their shops, leaving trash, stealing and sleeping in their doorways. Businesses in a two-block radius of Post Office Park are seeing the most negative aspects. But most of the business owners say it's only a few individuals causing the trouble, with an average of three to five homeless people causing them problems during a month. Those are some of the takeaways from a survey Mason County Public Health...
Mason County Commissioner Sharon Trask faces two challengers in the Aug. 2 primary election: Miguel Gutierrez, a first-term member of the Shelton City Council, and Mark Carlson. The two top vote-getters will face off in the general election Nov. 8. Trask and Carlson are Republicans, and Gutierrez is a Democrat. Mason County auditor and assessor, and seats representing the 35th Legislative District, are also up for grabs in the primary. Friday was the deadline for candidates to apply for election at the Mason County Auditor’s Office. I...
Grapeview School District Superintendent Kurt Hilyard is retiring, with his last day at the post June 30. The district's board of directors on Tuesday hired Jerry Grubbs as his replacement. Grubbs is the part-time superintendent of the Starbuck School District in Eastern Washington, and he will perform both jobs. Grubbs is the husband of Nikki Grubbs, who is leaving as superintendent of the Hood Canal School District to be assistant superintendent of the North Thurston School District. In an...
